Post on 04-Aug-2015
THE ACCIDENTAL SOCIAL INNOVATORS
WORK COLLEAGUES WANTING TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT!
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BACKGROUND INFO
SOCIAL : INDIGO
DRIVING SOCIAL INNOVATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND
DETI: “Harnessing the Power of Social Innovation to Drive the NI Economy” The Young Foundation: “Socially Sustainable Northern Ireland – A Young Foundation
Intervention Proposal” NI Executive: Innovation Strategy. Cabinet Office: “Social Attitudes of Young People (Generation Z)” Foresight Study. DEL: Youth Economic Inactivity Design Panel.
DEFINING SOCIAL INNOVATION
“Social Innovations are new solutions (products, services, models, markets, processes etc.) that simultaneously meet a social need (more effectively than existing solutions) and lead to new or improved capabilities and relationships and better use of assets and resources. In other words, social innovations are both good for society and enhance society’s capacity to act”
This definition is still evolving!
KEEPING IT SIMPLE!
“Creating new solutions to solve societies intractable issues”
Or my alternative view:
Creating a new movement to gain momentum!
“Becoming A Lone Nut”
SOCIAL INNOVATION EVERYONE CAN PLAY
PRIVATE SECTOR
NON PROFIT SECTOR
PUBLIC SECTOR
ACADEMIAINFORMAL
SECTOR
Social Innovation is not necessarily Social Enterprise!
SOCIAL INNOVATION: PROCESS
The Young Foundation Six Stages of Social Innovation
SOCIAL INNOVATION: PROCESS
GLOBAL SOCIAL INNOVATION
South Africa: Rlabs have developed a three tier package of support for social innovators: (1) Academies and skill training, (2) Living Labs – create enabling environments, (3) RLabs investment – invest in sustainable and scalable ventures.
USA: Recyclebank inspires and rewards smarter, everyday choices for a more sustainable future. Recyclebank knows that group effort is the way to make a positive impact and pull together communities, businesses and individuals.
Kenya: “Testimony” in Swahili – Set up during the civil strife in Kenya and has now scaled up to be a global human rights platform.
SOCIAL INNOVATION: CONCEPTSSHARED VALUE – MICHAEL PORTER
SOCIAL INNOVATION: CONCEPTSSHARED VALUE – MICHAEL PORTER
SHARED VALUE CORPORATE EXAMPLES
India: Developed for poor Indians who had no access to health care. Selected drugs for 11 disease areas and devised a plan to make drugs more affordable and increase health education.
Profitable after 31 months serving 42M in 33K villages in India.
Africa (Nigeria & Ghana): mPedigree – cloud based and mobile phone system designed to tackle counterfeit drugs, responsible for 700K deaths globally each year (i.e. 40% of antimalarial drugs in Nigeria and Ghana are fake).
Secure code on packaging – text number to free number.
SOCIAL INNOVATION: CONCEPTSCOLLECTIVE IMPACT - STANFORD
SOCIAL INNOVATION: CONCEPTSCOLLECTIVE IMPACT - STANFORD
OUR IDEASPowered by SOCIAL:INDIGO
Social Nybble: Online collaborative network designed to develop ideas and share resources with a common purpose to create measurable social impact
Social Jam: Development of a new North/South Social Innovation network with a key challenge to create ideas to tackle youth unemployment.
The Book Reserve: New social enterprise designed by Social Indigo to employ twelve young ex-offenders who are also parents per year and make the business profitable over a three year period.
FINAL THOUGHTS
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw
#PositivePurpose#SocialOptimism
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